Pedro Riera

Pedrio Riera was born in 1965 in Barcelona, which is also where he studied for a degree in Media Studies. He has worked in television, film and advertising and worked in Bosnia in the late nineties as a film maker, producer and director for radio and television on behalf of an international organisation. He has written two novels based on this experience: 'Heridas de guerra' ('War Wounds', 2004) and 'Un alto campo del los Mirlos' ('A Hill in the land of the Blackbirds' 2005). He has published several YA novels which have won various awards, including the CCEI prize for 'La leyenda del bosque sin nombre' ('The Legend of the Nameless Wood'), The El Templo de las Mil Puertas prize for 'La criatura del bosque' ('The Creature from the Woods') and the Edebé prize for 'La tumba de Aurora K' ('Aurora K's Grave). As a comic book artist he published the graphic novel 'El coche de Intisar' ('The Car of Intisar', Glénat, 2011) about the situation of women in Yemen, which was awarded the France Info state prize for best reportage/current affairs graphic novel in 2013.